Tom turkeys, the wild variety of course, have been on the minds of lots of hunters this spring. Hunting for an elusive wild tom turkey can be a very addictive reason to be outdoors in Iowa during the spring. Tree leaves are just beginning to emerge, and mosquitoes have not emerged. Forest ...

Today’s featured creature is the American White Pelican (Pelecanus erthrorhynchos). This is a very large bird, all white, except for black wingtip primary feathers, an orange long bill with its web skin lower mandible is made for capturing small fish, and look carefully at the top bill to see ...

Pope and Young Club is a name recognized in the hunting community for its excellence in promotion of conservation programs, support for ethical hunting using bows and arrows, and for their longstanding diligent record keeping statistics for qualifying animals entered into the record book. The ...

Prairie fires were the scourge and potential deadly happenings of centuries past. Early settlers on the native grassland prairies of the Midwest sometimes had to contend with an uncontrolled prairie fire being swept rapidly by strong and relentless winds. When weather conditions were just ...

Mergansers, specifically the Common merganser whose Latin name is Mergus merganser, is the species we are most likely to see at this time of the year while they are making stopovers en route to places north. This species is a large bird, being about 23 to 28 inches long, and tipping a scale at ...

The American Goldfinch was chosen for its official status because it was beautiful to look at, small and spunky in its behavior, and was commonly observed throughout the state, even for some that stayed all winter long. History may have forgotten if there was competition for another species ...